Daily Awesome 3/5-3/11
Naomi Huth
I apologize for the lapse in newsletters but please bear with me on my journey through graduate school. I will try to keep up a weekly newsletter but it will probably be moving to a weekend. Keep sending things over. Lots of great art fairs and another terrific play from the people who brought you Beowulf: check out Three Pianos.
Please continue to let me know whom to add onto this list. A lot of you are involved in the arts, so if you know of any events that I should be aware of, please tell me about them before Wednesday.
Enjoy. Naomi
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Friday March 5th
FOOD: Cupcakegate 2K10: The Resolution @ Union Hall, Brooklyn
LECTURE/ART: The Aesthetics of the Contract and the Contract of Aestics @ The Association of the Bar of the City of NY
ART: 142 11th Ave, New York City, New York @ 142 11th Ave, Manhattan
THEATER: The Bike Trip with Martin Dockery @ The Kraine Theater, Manhattan
PARTY: Rubulad Presents Winter is a drag @ Rubulad Home Base, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: Sci-Fi Burlesque – Episode II: Charlie XXX @ Hell Gate Social, Queens
THEATER: Three Pianos @ The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART: Flight 18 @ LMCC Swing Space, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Fountain New York @ Pier 66, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Independent @ 548 W 22nd St, Manhattan
ART FAIR: PooL @ Gershwin Hotel, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Pulse @ 330 W St, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Red Dot @ Skyline Studios, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Scope New York @ Pavilion at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Verge New York 2010 @ The Dylan Hotel, Manhattan
ART FAIR: VOLTANY @ 7 W 34th St, Manhattan
Saturday March 6th
LECTURE/ART: NYC State of the Art @ 333 West 23 Street, Manhattan
MUSIC/FESTIVAL: Johnny Cash Festival @ Secret Theater, Queens
ART/PERFORMANCE: The Salacious Salon @ Gershwin Hotel, Manhattan
PARTY: Wonderneath - Last Night for House of Yes @ House of Yes, Brooklyn
PERFORMANCE: Floating Kabarette @ Galapagos, Brooklyn
THEATER: Three Pianos @ The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART: Flight 18 @ LMCC Swing Space, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Fountain New York @ Pier 66, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Independent @ 548 W 22nd St, Manhattan
ART FAIR: PooL @ Gershwin Hotel, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Pulse @ 330 W St, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Red Dot @ Skyline Studios, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Scope New York @ Pavilion at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Verge New York 2010 @ The Dylan Hotel, Manhattan
ART FAIR: VOLTANY @ 7 W 34th St, Manhattan
Sunday March 7th
THEATER: The Bike Trip with Martin Dockery @ The Kraine Theater, Manhattan
TOUR/ART: Charles Addams's New York: Gallery Tour @ Museum of the City of NY, Manhattan
PARTY: The 4th Annual Alt.Oscar Awards & Dance @ Le Poisson Rouge, Manhattan
THEATER: Three Pianos @ The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Manhattan
PERFORMANCE/ART: Flight 18 @ LMCC Swing Space, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Fountain New York @ Pier 66, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Independent @ 548 W 22nd St, Manhattan
ART FAIR: PooL @ Gershwin Hotel, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Pulse @ 330 W St, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Red Dot @ Skyline Studios, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Scope New York @ Pavilion at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, Manhattan
ART FAIR: Verge New York 2010 @ The Dylan Hotel, Manhattan
ART FAIR: VOLTANY @ 7 W 34th St, Manhattan
Monday March 8th
WORKSHOP: Craft Night at the Etsy Labs @ Etsy Labs, Brooklyn
THEATER: Three Pianos @ The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Manhattan
Tuesday March 9th
LECTURE: Landscapes of Quarantine @ Storefront for Art and Architecture, Manhattan
LECTURE: LISA salon @ Toby Sander's home, Manhattan
THEATER: Three Pianos @ The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Manhattan
Wednesday March 10th
LECTURE: The Law of Violence in No Country for Old Men @ The Jacob Burns Moot Court, Manhattan
READING: Whip Smart @ Bluestockings, Manhattan
Thursday March 11th
PERFORMANCE/ART: Flight 18 @ LMCC Swing Space, Manhattan
******* Ongoing******
February 25th - March 20th 8:00pm; no performances Mondays or Wednesdays
Three Pianos @ The Ontological-Hysteric
Theater, 2nd Ave & 10th St. (Above St. Marks Church)
General $17/Student $14; Three raconteurs, each at his own piano, lead the audience through
their respective passions for "Winterreise," Schubert's
famous song cycle on winter heartbreak -- performing the songs,
grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music, slipping into
the skins of Schubert and friends, and drinking way too much.
Compositional mayhem, shifting rivalries, and some unfortunate butchery of
the German language ensue. Written, arranged and performed by Rick
Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy. Includes a reenactment of a Schubertiad, Schubert's famous
drunken music salon parties, complete with endless amounts of FREE WINE. http://davemalloy.com/threepianos.html
March 4-7, 11-14, 18-21, 25-28; April 1-4 Thursdays at 7:38pm, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:29pm, 9:27pm, Sundays at 4:59pm
Flight 18 @ LMCC Swing Space, Seaport, 210 Front Street
$18; for reservations visit www.flight18.net; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is pleased to present FLIGHT 18, conceived, directed, and piloted by theatre artist Eric Wallach, a recipient of a Swing Space grant from LMCC. Taking place within a 6,000 square foot former retail store donated by General Growth Properties, FLIGHT 18 is an interactive performance that invites its passengers onboard a spaceship voyaging toward the outer limits of space. FLIGHT 18 is an environmental entertainment experience that rises out of the ashes of Ground Zero, offering a public forum where performers and audience can interact and freely express themselves. The event begins at the ticketing counter where each passenger is photographed and briefly interviewed. With their boarding passes, passengers go through security check, then down the jet way and onto the groovy boarding lounge. Ensemble members are interspersed amongst the public, and passengers interact with the provocative flight crew as well as the pilots in the cockpit through song, dance and the meeting of minds. Everyone is welcome to participate or simply enjoy the exchange. Unfasten your seat belts and feel free to enjoy your trip.
******* Art Fairs This Weekend******
Fountain New York @ Pier
66 at 26th Street and West Side Highway in Hudson River Park
Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm, Friday, March 5, 7pm–midnight
Public Reception, Saturday, March 6, 7pm-midnight Artlog Live, $10
Independent @ 548 West
22nd Street
Thursday, March 4, 4-9pm Opening Reception, Friday, March 5 - Saturday, March
6, 11am-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-4pm, Free
PooL @ Gershwin Hotel, 27th Street and 5th
Avenue
Friday, March 5 - Sunday, March 7, 3-10pm, $10
Pulse @ 330 West Street (corner of West
Side Highway @ West Houston)
Thursday, March 4 - Saturday, March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-5pm, $20
(students $15)
Red Dot @ Skyline Studios, 500 West 36th
Street at 10th Avenue
Thursday, March 4, noon-6pm; Friday, March 5 - Saturday, March 6, 11am-8pm;
Sunday, March 7, 11am-6pm, $10
Scope New York @ Pavilion at Lincoln Center
Damrosch Park, 62nd St & Amsterdam Ave
Thursday, March 4 - Saturday, March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-7pm, $20
(students $10)
Verge New York 2010 @ The Dylan Hotel, 52
East 41st St (Between Madison and Park Avenues)
Thursday, March 4, 6pm-10pm Opening Reception, Friday, March 5 - Saturday,
March 6, noon-8pm; Sunday, March 7, noon-6pm, $10 (students $5)
VOLTANY @ 7 West 34th
Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
Thursday, March 4, 2-8pm; Friday, March 5 - Sunday, March 7, 11am-7pm, $15
******* Friday March 5th ******
March 5th 5:00-9:00pm
Cupcakegate 2K10: The Resolution @ Union Hall, 702 Union St, Brooklyn
Free; Calling all Breeders AND Ballers: You grieved with your fave neighborhood blog, FIPS, during Cupcakegate 2K10 when we were all promised delicious, fried Robicelli's cupcakes, and instead got a big fat pile of nothing. Well, tonight's the night that all of that changes! Robicelli's has teamed up with FIPS and Union Hall to bring you a glorious 3-hour fried cupcake extravaganza. You best bring your appetite, because the Robicelli's cupcakes will be coming out fast and furious from the fryer. We've got: The Elvis (Banana cake with peanut butter buttercream and brown sugar candied bacon); The Car Bomb (Chocolate Guinness Stout cake with Jameson Whiskey ganache and Bailey's Irish Cream buttercream); The L'Amour (Chocolate Chambord cake with Chambord buttercream & chocoalte raspberry ganache); and The Tres Leches (3-milk soaked brown butter cake with dulce de leche buttercream). So come hang with Robicelli's and the whole Fucked in Park Slope crew and get your (drunk) fried cupcake on! First one to have a heart attack that night, wins. Free to hang (regular cupcakes $3/each, fried cupcakes $4/each)
March 5th 6:30pmThe Aesthetics of the Contract and the Contract of Aestics @ The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Meeting Hall, 42 W 44th St
FREE with RSVP on website; Daniel McClean, a curator/lawyer, will discuss legal contracts from two perspectives: how Post-Conceptual artists use the medium of the contract to create artworks, and how lawyers create contracts and the role that aesthetics might play in their construction and interpretation. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is housed in an elegant historic landmark seated on “Clubhouse Row.” www.lmcc.net
March 5th 7:00pm-Midnight
142 11th Ave, New York City, New York @ 142 11th Ave
Free; This is a story of an icon. There are locations in this city with a history and energy so powerful their story can galvanize a community. 142 11th Ave, New York City, New York is the former site of the world's most infamous leather bar: The Eagle's Nest. From 1970 through March 5th, 2000, the space held nights of passion, beauty, conflict and controversy. "142 11th Ave, New York City, New York" is a 12' by 15' installation of 88 pieces of etched glass, wrought iron and an all encompassing sound composition. http://www.emma17.com The art is big, the sound is expansive, the liquor is free. This project is being presented by Ryan O'Connor of the Madagascar Institute, Taylor Kuffner / Zemi 17, and William Etundi Jr. of TheDanger.com.
March 5th 7:00pm The Bike Trip with Martin Dockery @ The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th St.
$14/$16; In a breathtaking quest to uncover the nature of the psychedelic experience, a man journeys through San Francisco, India, and Switzerland, tapping into history’s very first acid trip by, amongst other things, renting a bike. 2009 FRIGID Audience Choice Award for “The Surprise.” Breakthrough Performer of the Year, soloNOVA Festival; Best Solo Performance, San Francisco Fringe; Best of Fest, Winnipeg Fringe; Best Original Work, London Fringe; Best in Venue, Orlando Fringe. 1 hour.
March 5th 10:00pm doors, 11:00pm show
Rubulad Presents Winter is a drag @ Rubulad Home Base, 338 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn
$10 costume, before 11 pm or way late/ $15; Gender-Bending Adventure for the Amateur Explorer! Live bands: Electric Junkyard Gamelan, Ching Chong Song, The Beets w/ your dj/soundman Cody. DJs: Uproot Andy, DJ Shakey, Reagonomics, and The Vintage DJ. In the Cabaret Room: G-Scopitronic' s Non-Stop Film Fest, Kagero, Shebang w/ your dj/soundman Greything. Plus: Dreams and Aspirations Vending Machine by Yung, Form Francoeur's Light Circus Extraordinaire and Food by Vicious Delicious Dress: Razzle Dazzle us!
March 5th 11:00pm
Sci-Fi Burlesque – Episode II: Charlie XXX @ Hell Gate Social, 12-21 Astoria Boulevard, Queens
$5; Star Trek meets peep show during Hell Gate Social’s Sci-Fi Burlesque – Episode II: Charlie XXX. Lily Stitches, Reckless Abandon, Rosabelle Selavy, and Rosie 151 don sexy space-age costumes reminiscent of big screen sci-fi sirens while gyrating to AM Preacher.
******* Saturday March 6th ******
March 6th 11:30am
NYC State of the Art @
333 West 23 Street
425; What more can be done to enable
artists in NYC? Moderator: Jason Bowman, Fountain Gallery, David
Businelli, AIA, Zannah Mass, Two Trees, Savona Bailey-McClain, West Harlem
Arts, Manon Slome, No Longer Empty, Gavin Sewell, Artist. Artists struggle
constantly to live, work, show, and sell. Artists, arts leaders, notable
panelists will address solutions at NYC:State Of The Art, an unprecedented
artist and art industry not-for-profit conference. pARTicipate! Get your
ticket or sponsor an artist now at http://nycstateoftheart.com/tickets.asp
March 6th 5:00pmJohnny Cash Festival @ Secret Theater, 44-02 23rd St, Queens
$20/$25; Fans of the “Man in Black” should hightail it to the Secret Theatre for the all-night Johnny Cash Festival, where Antonino D’Ambrosio reads from his new book, A Heartbeat & A Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, the documentary Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison will be screened, and local musicians perform songs from Cash’s Live at Folsom Prison album. Appropriately, pulled pork sliders and a chance to win Gibson guitars will also be thrown into the mix. www.secrettheatre.com
March 6th 7:00- 10:00pm
The Salacious Salon @ Gershwin Hotel, 27th St and 5th Ave, Suite 936
This Salon will present serious sensuous work: painting, drawing, sculpture, illustration, collage, photography, videos as well as limited edition prints, objets d'art, hand-made books, and t-shirts, and erotic needlework. This salon will include readings by Inbred Hybrid Collective, Walt Cessna, Paul Wirhun; spoken word rap by Gio Black Peter; screenings of Charles Lum's video short "Indelible," as well as Reno Dakota's award winning movie "American Fabulous." The House of Delicious believes that Sexuality is a window into Consciousness, for Art & Sex & Spirit are One! Living on the edge of the Salacious, we find that All Fashion is Drag and Capitalism constrains Creativity! A real political revolution cannot happen until all are sexually liberated!
March 6th Doors 8:00pm/Show 9:00pm
Wonderneath - Last Night for House of Yes @ House of Yes, 342 Maujer St, Brooklyn
$20; Expect magic, mayhem, sparkles and more. Tumble into The Wonderneath: a Shimmering Circus-perience The Wonderneath is a new circus theater adventure that opens February 26th at the House of Yes. Set in turn-of-the-century New York City, The Wonderneath explores the otherworldly lair rumbling below the city's surface, where steam energy has seeped through granite and crystal, fractalized, and created a land where all that is wondered comes to be. This triumphant tale explores the intersection of imagination and circus skills through aerial acrobatics, fire performance, puppetry, dance, and more, accompanied with live jazz and blues stylings by Tin Pan. Join Hailey, played by Kai Altair, as she discovers this magical realm and the many mysteries that lie below. A fantastical world nestled amongst the delight of color-spewing snapdragons, the mischief of pixie steam rats, and the power and grace of the high-flying Queen of the underbelly, The Wonderneath, laden in the sparkle of CRYSTALLIZED - Swarovski Elements, harbors enchantment for all. Written and produced by Ali Schmitz, the creative force crowned Coney Island's Best Mermaid 2009, The Wonderneath stars the captivating Kai Altair and live jazz and blues stylings by Tin Pan. Featuring dazzling performances by Claire de Luxe, Jordann Baker, Ali Luminescent, and Ellie Mio of Lady Circus; Ateles Aerial; Renata of Desert Sin and Alchemy Dance Theater; Ahnika Delirium and Bex Burton.
March 6th Doors 10:00pm/Show 10:30pm
Floating Kabarette @ Galapagos, 16 Main St, Brooklyn
$5; Hosted by Olga & Bjorn. Starring: Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies: Bawdy Dance Stars, Gigi & Pop: Quarky Lounge Act, Vanishing Vinny: Magician Extraordinaire, Madame Rosebud: Burlesque Beauty, The Girl Next Door & more! *Free Haircuts by LB all night!
******* Sunday March 7th ******
March 7th 2:30pm
The Bike Trip with Martin Dockery @ The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th St.
$14/$16; In a breathtaking quest to uncover the nature of the psychedelic experience, a man journeys through San Francisco, India, and Switzerland, tapping into history’s very first acid trip by, amongst other things, renting a bike. 2009 FRIGID Audience Choice Award for “The Surprise.” Breakthrough Performer of the Year, soloNOVA Festival; Best Solo Performance, San Francisco Fringe; Best of Fest, Winnipeg Fringe; Best Original Work, London Fringe; Best in Venue, Orlando Fringe. 1 hour.
March 7th 3:00pm
Charles Addams's New York: Gallery Tour @ Museum of the City of NY, 1220 5th Ave
Free w/Museum Admission; Tour the Museum's newest exhibition, Charles Addams's New York, with Sarah Henry, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. The exhibition features original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams's quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of the cityscape.
March 7th 6:00pm-2:00amThe
4th Annual Alt.Oscar Awards & Dance
@ Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street
$15 presale (at www.altyawards. com)/$20
door; Featuring Oscar Viewing in multiple rooms at this posh Greenwich Village
club, the Infamous Alty Awards Ceremonies, an Interactive Red Carpet where all
are welcome, and a late night Dance Party with DJs spinning during the
commercials and after the show. Listen to every word of the Hollywood
Oscars in the lounge or participate in the Alt.Oscars event in the main room!
Dress: Film Character, Pop Culture Icon, Inspired Eccentric, Creative Black Tie
or Star-Struck Paparazzi... 2009 Alty Awards for Best Celebrity (delusions of
grandeur and temper tantrums encouraged!), Best Costumes (from a recent film),
Technical Direction (costumes with tech in them) and Lifetime Achievement (real
or imagined)... Alty Juniors for feats of brilliance and absurdity... Awards
categories will be flexible to award the most deserving with awards going to
those with the best style and shtick... Bribery and nepotism may be entertained
but your efforts are really what matters on this red carpet.
******* Monday March 8th ******
March 8th 4:00-8:00pm
Craft Night at the Etsy Labs @ Etsy Labs, 55 Washington St, Suite 512, Brooklyn
TBA; Each week the Etsy Labs organize a skill-sharing project. (The last Monday of each month is Open Craft Night.) We provide supplies, tools, and know-how. Participants are also welcome to bring their own project to work on independently as well. Craft night is a time to make things, learn new skills, and hang out. Drop by anytime between 4-8pm on Mondays! Demos are held throughout the evening. Craft nights are always free of charge. The Etsy Labs host a free weekly craft night, a monthly Church of Craft meeting, as well as special creative community events. Want to learn to sew your own underwear? Sew your own clothing and totebags? Make jewelry? Bind books? Embroider? Knit and crochet? Then, you've come to the right place.
******* Tuesday March 9th ******
March 9th 7:00pm
Landscapes
of Quarantine @ Storefront for Art and
Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street
Free; From Chernobyl's Zone of Exclusion to the
artificial quarantine islands of the New York archipelago, and from camps set
up to house HIV+ Haitian refugees at Guantánamo Bay to the modified Airstream
trailer within which returning Apollo astronauts once waved at President Nixon,
the landscapes of quarantine are as varied as they are unexpected. Landscapes
of Quarantine features new works by a multi-disciplinary group of eighteen
artists, designers, and architects, each of whom was inspired by one or more of
the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political, temporal,
and even astronomical dimensions of quarantine. The opening reception will
showcase a one-night-only, inflatable quarantine prosthesis attached to
Storefront's façade, designed by architects Jeffrey Inaba and Joseph Grima, as
well as a range of beers generously donated by Brooklyn Brewery. During the
exhibition, a series of quarantine-inspired dinners will be hosted at the
gallery. As envisioned by Michael Cirino of A razor, a shiny knife, the events will feature
quarantine-aged meats, layered encapsulated flavors and other themed edibles.
Ticketing details will be announced soon.
March 9th 7:00-10:00pm
LISA salon @ Toby Sander's home, 113 West 118 Street, Apt #1
RSVP:
eriks...@gmail.com - please bring a
fascinating friend; Presenters: judsoN has been programming behavioral (mostly
interactive, non-linear) software art around the world for stages, museums, galleries
and on the web for 15+ years. these pieces investigate what our neurology
actively does (rather than passively observes) in the process of comprehending
our environment. art == learning. http://pump.org.in;
Michael Galpert is one of the
founders of Aviary, a suite of collaborative web based creative apps . In
his day to day he works on strategic business development, expanding Aviary's
footprint and product offerings.
He is driven by a passion to help others do what they love and currently sits
on the advisory board for Web 2.0 Expo New York, is a
member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Helps
organize Barcamp New York and is actively involved with the NYC-based
tech community group NextNY; Through drawings and dynamic projections K Staelin explores
two interconnected strands: how the mind shapes perception and how we relate to
others over time. kstaelin.com; Andy Doro is from New York City. His work consists
largely of interactive and kinetic sculptures and design objects which use technology
to reveal hidden information systems.
******* Wednesday March 10th ******
March 10th 6:30pm
The Law of Violence in No Country for Old Men @ The Jacob Burns Moot Court, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Ave
Free with RSVP on website; Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is the Associate Director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) in New York City, and is an Adjunct Instructor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School. Playing off a typical form of law school pedagogy, Sarmiento will lead a class-room debate on the ethical implications inherent in Ethan & Joel Coen’s filmic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men from within a mock courtroom theater. Audience participation is highly encouraged; please watch the film and read the background materials available on our website for this event. www.lmcc.net
March 10th 7:00pmWhip Smart @ Bluestockings, 172 Allen St
Free; Reading: Melissa Febos "Whip Smart" She spanked men for money: Wall Street scoundrels needing forgiveness; rabbis seeking semikhah; fathers with daddy issues. Working as a dominatrix in a Manhattan dungeon, Melissa Febos gained intimate insights into sexual politics... and tonight, with a lacerating wit, she shares her tale in "Whip Smart," a dazzling memoir and a provocative feminist manifesto. We host events nearly every night and you will not be turned away from an event at Bluestockings for lack of money.